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A chef plating meals in a professional kitchen
For care and nursing homes

Book a care-experienced chef

Capegold Care is an agency supplying healthcare-experienced chefs to care and nursing homes across the South West. Based in Taunton and Bridgwater. Every chef we send is already trained and has cooked in a care setting before.

Request a chef What every chef holds
Chef cover needed in the next 24 hours? Call 01823 212 811 Mobile 07460 246 863. Text 07576 577 935. Our on-call line is open 24 hours a day, every day. The form below is monitored in business hours.
What every chef holds before they reach your kitchen

Already trained. Already care-experienced.

We do not supply general kitchen assistants. Every chef we send is a trained, care-experienced chef who understands the clinical side of catering in a care or nursing home, from day one.

A freshly cooked roast dinner, plated

Trained before we ever put them forward

  • Level 2 Food Safety and Hygiene, at minimum
  • Allergen awareness under Natasha's Law, covering the 14 named allergens
  • Texture modified diets under the IDDSI dysphagia framework
  • Nutrition and hydration awareness for older people
  • At least six months cooking in a care home or NHS hospital

We do not supply general kitchen assistants or restaurant chefs without care experience. The chef's compliance records are available for your file on request.

A chef finishing plated desserts A chef at a service counter
Why it matters

A trained chef reduces real risk in your home

Catering in a care home is a clinical job as much as a culinary one. A chef who already knows the protocols protects your home from the first shift.

Dysphagia and texture

A texture modified diet made wrongly is a choking and aspiration risk. Our chefs work to IDDSI and prepare each level correctly, meal after meal.

Allergens and the law

Our chefs know the 14 named allergens, read residents' records and never guess. That protects residents and the home.

Nutrition and hydration

Poor nutrition and hydration harm health. Our chefs plan meals older people will actually eat and drink, not just meals that look right on a menu.

Chef request

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What do you need?

This tells us who picks up your request and how fast.

Choose the option that matches your request.
You and your organisation
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Choose the type of service.
Enter a work email in the format name@example.com.
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The postcode of the home where the chef will work. Enter a valid UK postcode, for example TA6 5NS.
The chef cover
For example: “Mon 3 to Fri 7 August, 07:00 to 15:00” or “ongoing weekend day shifts from September”.
Number of residents catered for, known dietary and texture requirements, allergens on record, kitchen equipment, service times, parking, access or anything a chef should know before they arrive.
Staying in touch
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We use these details to respond to your request and to set up your organisation on our system, in line with our privacy policy. We do not sell your data or share it outside Capegold Care Ltd.

Request received, thank you

Your chef request is with our bookings team. We will confirm by phone or email, normally within one working day.

If anything changes, or you need us sooner, call Landline 01823 212 811, Mobile 07460 246 863, Text 07576 577 935 or email admin@capegoldcare.co.uk.

Prefer to talk it through?

Tell us about your kitchen and your residents and we will match a chef who fits, not just a chef who is free.

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